Prof. Dr. Lihe Huang is Deputy Director of Office of Humanities and Social Sciences, General Secretary of Research Center for Ageing, Language and Care, and Deputy Director of Institute of Linguistics and Multimodality in Tongji University. As one of the leading young scholars in the studies of multimodal pragmatics and language and ageing in China, he has published widely and undertaken several research projects granted by different institutions. Lihe Huang is Humboldt Fellow of Germany-based Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Honorary Postgraduate (Research Degree) Supervisor at the University of Liverpool, Visiting Associate Professor at University of Malaya and he conducted research at several world-class universities. He has received several honors and awards both at home and abroad for his academic and teaching performance or social service.
His current research interest is Gerontolinguistics, i.e. utilizing multifaceted disciplinary approaches to conduct fundamental research on linguistic behavior and cognitive pattern of seniors with dementia in China. He also carries out research and development on early diagnosis, cognitive training, disease management and database construction with the help of Artificial Intelligence technology. His team screens for cognitive impairment and participate in social services, as well as providing think tank suggestions for governments on aging-friendly community construction and aging society management.
He now serves as a referee for several prestigious international journals and holds the membership in the council of some important academic associations both at home and abroad, including China Society of Language and Semiotics, China Pragmatics Association, China Association of Cognitive and Neurolinguistics, Chinese Linguistics Society and China Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics.